Late one summer night at Malfoy Manor, long after the dull civility of the post-NEWT season had driven them into restless curiosity, the Slytherin princes—Draco, Mattheo, Theo, and Blaise—found themselves in the manor’s forgotten library. Among dust-choked tomes and forbidden relics, they uncovered an ancient grimoire, bound in dragonhide so aged it seemed older than language itself. The writing inside was inked in a script none of them could decipher, symbols that shifted under candlelight as though alive.